The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin reportedly won’t return to Apple TV+ after all. Apple reportedly canceled Dick Turpin season two, laying the blame on star Noel Fielding.
The comedy series premiered in 2024, and Apple TV+ renewed it for a second season. However, word came Wednesday that The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin stopped mid-production.
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin cancelled
The humor in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin derives from Fielding being a ridiculously wrong actor to portray a murderous, 18th-century English highwayman. He’s gentle and friendly, though he does love dressing up in black clothes. This deliberately absurd version of Turpin’s goal is to put some kindness into robbing travelers.
Season one of the comedy, which premiered last March, did well enough with viewers that Apple TV+ greenlit season two. But then the wheels apparently came off.
“Noel Fielding’s multi-million pound comedy The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin has been axed mid-production after he failed to come to work,” reported British tabloid The Sun.
Production on new episodes started last fall, then halted for the holidays. It was supposed to resume in January, but its star reportedly never came back.
“Creatives, cast and crew this week received the devastating news … and were simply told it was down to ‘the illness of a key cast member,’” according to The Sun.
No one knows any more than that. The other people who worked on the series, including Ellie White (The Windsors), Marc Wootton (High & Dry) and Duayne Boachie (Blue Story), apparently find themselves abruptly out of work. And the series’ production company is out the money it spent in the autumn, though it likely could file an insurance claim.
Fielding’s mysterious illness also raises questions about whether he’ll return as a co-presenter in the upcoming season of The Great British Bake Off. That should go into production this spring.
